[Android] New install idea -- multi-boot
 

At this point, as far as I can tell, all efforts to run Android on the Nx0 depend on chrooting; I assume the existing rootfs is not suitable for direct booting from a stock or boot-menu-ized initfs, as at least power management is missing...

If anyone's had success that way, I'd certainly like to hear of it; but supposing that's not practical, it seems like making a very stripped ITOS (any version, but probably Diablo)-based rootfs that chroots up Android could work nicely.

This gets two benefits:

1. Get to Android faster, as you don't have to wait for Diablo to start, and then shut most of it back down.
2. Stepping-stone to combining whatever parts of ITOS are necessary into the Android rootfs, and directly booting.
3. Might reduce memory consumption from any unkillable things, but I'm not real sure we do gain here...

I'm not sure I follow exactly what qwerty12's planning for the FB update default, but whether automatic or manual, that needs switched at boot time for one of ITOS and Android, so that change could be made from initfs (bootmenu), or from the ITOS/stub rootfs, as appropriate.

Anyone know what elements of ITOS are still used? (A ps -e after stopping everything, but before starting Android would be a good start...)

Re: New install idea -- multi-boot
 

Unfortunately, the current SDK is unsuitable for booting. the reason whi this is a problem is because at the moment, Android is missing an asental part called the Android-runtime this component is verry, verry important for allowing Android to run nativly on the device. so untill Google releases a runtime, later on this year, we will not be able to run this OS nativly.

Re: New install idea -- multi-boot
 

I think Benson had in mind booting with stripped down Diablo and automatically booting into Android instead of loading hildon-desktop and such...

Re: New install idea -- multi-boot
 

That's what I was thinking as well, but I don't think I would be in any position to follow through. Can it be done? I suspect so...

--Jon

Re: New install idea -- multi-boot
 

I'm gonna give it a shot, once I get my main systems rebuilt on a new SD that hopefully crashes less often...

I was just hoping for a little data meanwhile, as I'd like to jump straight into stripping things down when I get to it.

And b-man, you're not quite right AFAICT, because the elinux Android on OMAP wiki says that Android (specifically, an SDK-derived rootfs, like we're chrooting to) can be booted directly, on some hardware; of course, we don't boot anything directly, as it all comes through the initfs and pivoting to the eventual rootfs, which rules that approach out completely for ITs (without getting very fancy)...

Re: New install idea -- multi-boot
 

Btw, fb update is not required to be switched at boot time and is working here like a charm - i have working mplayer and Android. I was thinking more about trying to get the latest m5 running though.

Re: New install idea -- multi-boot
 

You got a strong point their, when i posted that reply i did not think about the fact that everything booted thrue initfs and you don't need the Android-runtime at all. sorry, how follish of me.:o

(note to self, think before you post:rolleyes: )

Re: New install idea -- multi-boot
 

You could probably boot it with the linuxrc stuff from my bootmenu patches quite easily - and maybe packages from Deblet.